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Spent some time with Google. Per one report, Thermoelectric materials can generate electricity in a magnetic field, and in fact the field can increase the efficiency - but the details are absent. What orientation of the magnetic flux is used, for one? Thermoelectric materials design try to increase ...

Aero, wouldn't that cause heat transfer, the opposite of what we are trying to do (insulate one layer from the other)? Don't know. My impression has been that thermo electrics act as insulators rather than conductors. I will have to visit Google to see what I can discover. Another question has to d...

Way back when ... we were designing the cooling system for the superconductor coils. Did we ever consider lining the cooling channels with thermoelectric generators? There is quite a temperature drop between coolant channels. Is there a thermoelectric generator material that would operate at those t...

From the preprint: The magnetic cusp experiments described in this paper were conducted in a cubic vacuum chamber measuring 45 cm on an edge. Centred in this chamber are six iden- tical magnet coils, each coil having major radius 6.9 cm and minor radius 1.3 cm. The coils are arranged such that each ...

Ok - so it makes sparks. Maybe more sparks than a sparkler fireworks, but I'm not sure. I think the HotCat demo is more impressive.

Is that single engine? It sure looked like it. Also seemed like the landing leg struts were catching on fire. Lot of smoke coming of them at the end of the sequence. Pause the video at the very end, you can see 3 nozzles. No telling how many engines though but there may be 3. Looked to me like they...

Tweet from Elon: Data upload from tracking plane shows landing in Atlantic was good! Several boats enroute through heavy seas.

Some comparisons might be in order. My recollection is that typical thermoelectric devices are at best 2-3% efficient. If something can increase that 10 fold,that would be tremendous. The poorly performing and power hungry piezoelectric coolers/ heaters would be revolutionized. Spacecraft thermoele...

Nathan Gilliland, the new GF CEO, was on a business news show at 35 minutes into the show. Nothing new is said, but you get to see that he is a polished "Talking Head" for GF, so you get to see him in "action." http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV+Shows/Lang+%26+O%27Leary+Exchange/ID/2444633105/ Nothin...

NASA release: March 20, 2014The following is a statement from NASA regarding erroneous media reports crediting the agency with an academic paper on population and societal impacts. "A soon-to-be published research paper 'Human and Nature Dynamics (HANDY): Modeling Inequality and Use of Resources in ...

Remember back then we had no global warming, plenty of oil, the middle east was our friends, and we needed plutonium for peacefull purposes . no point in having that type of reactor :roll: Basically nailed it. Especially when you throw in the extra pork available with the chosen option, further dev...

jgarry wrote:It is curious that this technology hasn't been previously developed.

It was, long ago, 1950's - 1970's. Just another government funding trade-off from being two potential ways to develop nuclear power.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor

this is about as innocuous as they come, isn't it?

True enough, and probably enough said on that subject. Where were we before we side tracked?

That sounds like the engine mass plus nacelle mass from my figures. Yes - engine plus nacelle mass. But then the engine won't perform very well without the nacelle. I just lump the masses together. Of course it is true that for mass optimization efforts, etc., they are separate entities. I think th...

Your reference title sounds better than Wikipedia but I don't find such a thing as a C1 trajectory spreadsheet. Would you give some guidance as to where to find that spread sheet beyond, it's on the REL web site? A link if possible. C1 trajectory spreadsheet presentation with C1 mass breakdown (pg....